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For some time I have been receiving e-mail from a fellow who calls
himself "Dr. Duck". The good doctor appears to be a conservative of
the sort libertarians would be happy to converse with over a beer
or nine, and I almost always enjoy what he sends out into the world.

Dr. Duck is also an enterprising individual who has created a concept
and a website called "Duck's Deluxe" that is thoroughly worth
spending time with, especially if you like guitar music or are a
guitarist, yourself. He advertises a lot of nifty products there I'm
anxious to try out, as I live almost entirely surrounded by guitars
I haven't bothered to count in decades.

But most of all, I want to recommend the doctor's radio show, "Dr.
Duck's Guitar Prescription", wherein, every Saturday night, he spins
the greatest guitar music ever recorded and does many other
interesting things. You can listen at 8:00 PM Pacific time (he's in
Las Vegas) on KUNV, 91.5 FM on your radio dial if you're in town, or
streamed worldwide from kunv.org
on your computer if you're not.

Another FM station, 96.3, plays and streams the program an hour later
at lvclassicrock.com.

Dr. Duck also maintains an extensive collection of recordings of his
program you can listen to any time you want. And, of course, there
are always the Ducky Girls.

Consider one of the health "alternatives" that far too many people just
don't even think about these days... taking charge of one's own health
and wellness. Most modern illnesses are the result of stress, poor diet,
lifestyle, substance abuse, and the ingestion of massive amounts of
chemical "medicine" that almost invariably does more harm than good.

I almost died (long story) before I realized that all that was
completely within my own control. I stopped taking the pills, stopped
going to the doctors (going on 8 years now), pursue a much healthier
(no, not perfect) lifestyle and diet... and I am much happier and in
better health than I've been since I was a teen. Now, at 66, I'll go
to a doctor if I break something, or spring a major leak, but not
for much else. And there are/will always be doctors who are willing
to work outside the system.

As a former western medicine health care provider... an RN for 30
years, I have an excellent idea what "medicine" was in the past, and
a crystal clear picture of where it's going. The trick is simply not
to go along. The doctors and nurses (and many others) who understand
that are leaving the sinking ship as fast as they can. They know they
can't save the dying monster, no matter what they do.

Soon, the only ones left will be the helplessly debt ridden cowards who
can't see a way out, and the incompetent or downright evil ones who
glory in their CONTROL.

Control your own health. It works. It's possible. And it may soon be the
only rational option, no matter what your health problems might be.

Is it me or are the people who are excoriating Baby Bush for the
Iraq War:

A: The same people that egged him on to start it and cheerleaded the
early part of its prosecution until they were exposed to the harsh
lesson that sometimes it's easier to win a war than make the post
war peace work? Especially with the likes of Rumfield and Cheney
trying to use Iraq as an abattoir to slaughter terrorists regardless
of how many Iraqi civilians got killed in the crossfire and how
unstable peace in Iraq would thus become.

B: The same people that are beating the war drums for a US
intervention in Syria with an option to get a war going with Iran?

Finally I have to ask, am I being paranoid to see this pattern and
am I the only one?

Crazy Al

Crazy Al resides in an idealized Far West Texas that was long ago
bulldozed to build more parking lots and has plenty of bookstores,
reliable privately owned mass transportation, and uses honest silver
and gold money. Occassionally he sneaks into A.X. Perez's house and
uses his computer to communicate with TLE.

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